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Surrogate Latino #7: Miguel Muziq, Latin Jazz Guitarist

Guitarist, songwriter, and producer, Miguel Muziq is a new force to be reckoned with on the Latin Jazz scene. His production/remixing credits include Usher and Kelly Rowland, now Miguel’s debut album “An Angel’s Healing” finally…

Tropical Music
Top Ten Latin Music Hits of June

Latino Life comes to show you which tropical songs have the highest popularity during June.

Tropical Music
Colombian Cumbia Tracks

New York's DJ Bongohead, pioneering graphic designer, artist, DJ, writer and percussionist, has compiled collections for labels like World Music Network, Nascente, Fania, and Vapisoul. He has designed album covers and…

Tropical Music
The London Latin All Stars

The headline act at 'LatinoLife in the Park', what better way to comeback from lockdown than bring together the finest UK Latin artists of a generation for this specially curated 16-piece Big Band, to finish the UK…

Urban
J Balvin at the 02 Arena

A night of show-stopping, awe-inspiring production mixed with the perfect ratio of laid-back and heart-warming moments from the artist. J Balvin at this height of his career continues to set the standard for creativity, …

Brazilian Music
Things That Matter to...Luiz Gabriel Lopes

Luiz Gabriel Lopes is a singer-songwriter from Minas Gerais, the fertile territory that spawned the incredible Clube da Esquina generation of Milton Nascimento, Lo Borges, Toninho Horta et al. Echoing these illustrious…

Urban
The History of Reggaetón

For those of you who've come to it late, here's a beginner's guide...

The History of Latin Music in London

Notwithstanding the cheesy album covers, Latinolife explores the rich and idiocyncratic story of Latin Music in London.

Brazilian Music
Things That Matter to...Anderson, lead singer of Afro-Reggae

Anderson, 29, was born and raised in Vigário Geral, one of Rio de Janeiro’s most violent favelas. His mum is a dinner lady and his dad, a tax-driver. Anderson’s first jobs involved doing small favours for criminals like wrapping…

Urban
Swiss Sampling: An Interview with Michel Cleis

His track ‘La Mezcla’, using a Toto La Momposina sample, became one of the biggest house tracks of the century, and it made him a household name in that market. Now the World-renowned Swiss DJ and producer just reworked Natalia…

Classical Jazz and Folk
The Global Adventures of Paquito D’Rivera

From child prodege in Havana to one of the greatest Latin jazz artists of our times, we pay tribute to the great Cuban musician and all round renaissance man.

Spanish Music
Paco de Lucia

Paco de Lucía: (Francisco Sánchez Gomez), guitarist and composer, born 21 December 1947; died 25 February 2014

Tropical Music
Tito Nieves Tunes that Rock The Dance Floor

"El Pavarotti de la Salsa" as he is also known, Tito Nieves is one of the best voices of Salsa, no doubt. With a fantastic career that started in the late ’70s, Tito has managed to stay relevant and active, keeping his…

Alternative
Chaos with a Purpose

From New York to Puerto Rico, Buscabulla is an electronic music duo formed by Luis Alfredo Del Valle and Raquel Berrios, both Puerto Rico-born musicians who lived in Brooklyn until 2017. That year, Puerto Rico was destroyed by…

Pop & Rock
The Fabulous Chameleons

Los Fabulosos Cadillacs have calved a place as one of Latin America’s most successful rock bands, thanks to a unique and ever-mutating style - a concept, they say they copied from The Clash. Latino Life talks to Vicentico and…

Tropical Music
Finding Freedom

After a decade as one of the most sought-after salsa musicians in Europe, Rene Alvarez is embarking on a long-life dream of fusing his Afro-Cuban heritage with his love of North American funk. His new band, Alvarez Funk, departs…

Classical Jazz and Folk, Pop & Rock
A Talent Show Star with a Difference

Since winning the Eurovision Song Contest in 2017 (with the highest ever score to date) and giving Portugal its first-ever win in the contest, Salvador Sobral has proved to be much more than just a talent contest winner. The jazz…

Urban
Street Elegance

L-Gante is one of the most exciting, original and successful urban artists to emerge from Latin America in recent years. Emerging from the working-class suburbs of Buenos Aires, the boy from el barrio came out of nowhere and…

Film, Tropical Music
"I couldn't have made this film if I wasn't Latino"

In the 1950s, when the Democratic Republic of the Congo was a Belgian colony, a generation of Congolese musicians fused traditional African rhythms with Afro-Cuban music to create the electrifying beat of Congolese rumba - a beat…

Classical Jazz and Folk
WHAT MEXICO IS

Often accused of glorifying violence, Norteño legends Los Tigres del Norte have caused controversy and divided opinion with their musical “story-telling”. Yet there is no denying the huge impact that this highly influential…

Pop & Rock
Mexico's Ranchera-Pop Anti-Diva

Blending traditional Mexican ranchera sounds with elements of the Pop and Rock she grew up with in Tijuana, Julieta Venega first landed on the Mexican Rock scene in the nineties and has since won a Grammy, been nominated for two…

Classical Jazz and Folk
Things That Matter To...Eliane Elias

Brazilian jazz pianist Eliane Elias is known for her distinctive and immediately recognizable musical style which blends her Brazilian roots, her sensuous, alluring voice with her virtuosic instrumental jazz, classical and…

Tropical Music
The People's Salsero

At first dismissed for his wordy complexity, Rubén Blades - composer, singer, salsero, lyricist, narrator, poet, social conscience and political activist - soon proved to be Fania's biggest money spinner. In this…

Pop & Rock
Maluma @ Wembley Arena

London's Latinas got their fix of Latin America's hottest pop property at Wembley on September 24th

Tropical Music
Baila La Cumbia

Baila La Cumbia - Tropical tunes from the South West guaranteed to get your feet on the dancefloor!

Classical Jazz and Folk
HEARTSONGS

Lila Downs is back – with not one but Dos Corazones – a new song which she will be debuting live in London this this month.  She tells Elizabeth Mistry how her first UK visit in eight years will be an opportunity to talk about…

Classical Jazz and Folk
Odd One Out

Hailed as one of the most promising jazz musicians of her generation, Chilean saxophonist Melissa Aldana is somewhat of an anomoly. Amaranta Wright meets Blue Note’s latest signing and discovers an incredible journey from a…

Classical Jazz and Folk
Things That Matter to...Alfredo Rodríguez

Widely considered to be one of the most gifted and exciting jazz pianists of his generation, Alfredo Rodríguez’s high-octane, warm and joyous musicianship won him at first the mentorship of Quincy Jones then a Grammy nomination.…

Classical Jazz and Folk
LATIN LONDONER #21.....Omar Puente - Jazz Musician

Jazz violinist and 2017 LUKAS winner, Omar Puente, has performed to audiences worldwide. First violinist at the Cuban National Symphony Orchestra before leaving Cuba in 1997, he toured with Buena Vista’s Ruben Gonzales all over…

Classical Jazz and Folk
Tino Contreras' Fantasy Island Tracks

Our castaway this month is Tino Contreras the master Mexican jazz drummer who for more than six decades has melded Latin influences with free jazz, psychedelia, avant-garde experimentation, and global sounds. Born in 1924, Tino…

Culture, Spanish Music
Southern Passion at the Cervantes Theatre

The Flamenco Festival London 2022, based at Sadler’s Wells (dance) and the Cervantes Theatre (music) featured renowned stars and legends like Tomatito, the Compañia Jesús Carmona, El Yoyo and his troupe, Rocío Márquez and…

Urban
Reggaeton’s Romantic

Jay Wheeler has long been known in his native Puerto Rico as “reggaetón’s favourite voice”, due to his romantic lyrics, folky tone and unashamedly sensitive side. He famously got so emotional at one concert in his hometown Ponce…

Urban
Spotlight on...Brytiago

Brytiago has become a platinum-selling Puerto Rican singer and songwriter well-known for his many own singles and featured collaborations. He has been an important figure on both reggaeton and trap scenes since his landing on…

Urban
Candela Records announces "Hot Steppa" Angelo Flow's latest single featuring & J Spades and Diztortion

Following on from his club hit "Solo Tu", Angelo teams up with UK rap pioneer J Spades on a new JA dancehall influenced "Hot Steppa". Fusing the artists' Jamaican and Venezuelan Caribbean flows and London…

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Music City Guide: Bogotá

Over the years, LatinoLife has built up relationships with amazing DJs worldwide, whose passion, knowledge and dedication to music we admire. In the second part of our new series MUSIC CITY GUIDES, where we ask DJs from around…

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